modify
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These findings helped establish Zanvastro as the first treatment approved to modify the underlying disease process in Alexander disease, rather than focusing exclusively on symptom relief.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026
“That’s what we do for any new work or projects that modify the system.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 8, 2026
Nevertheless, more than 50 countries, external are developing programmes to modify the weather and a surge of start-ups are developing systems to create rain.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2026
OpenAI acknowledged in late August that its models had sometimes tried, unsuccessfully, to erase or modify their own activity logs during internal tests.
From Barron's ● Oct. 1, 2026
“To work on them and modify them and all that. Don’t you think?”
From "The Mysterious Benedict Society" by Trenton Lee Stewart
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The system even allows a rider to transmit their real-time heart rate so that the e-bike motor modifies the level of assistance as needed.
From Barron's ● Jun. 28, 2026
On Kalshi, Boss places 60 trades a minute and modifies his bids and asks 30 times a second.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 4, 2026
Ferreira modifies these cells with a CAR that recognizes a specific surface protein placed on the beta cells.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 2, 2026
County Superior Court Judge Michael Jesic modifies the brothers’ original sentence to 50 years to life.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 14, 2025
Considering the whole span of earthly time, the opposite effect, in which life actually modifies its surroundings, has been relatively slight.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
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Instead of requiring patients to wait while their cells are collected, modified, expanded, and returned, the necessary genetic engineering could potentially happen inside the patient.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
The judge also modified the actor’s visitation time, limiting her hours with her son to Mondays, Tuesdays and weekends between 10 a.m. and 8 p.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 2, 2026
Open-weight models are those whose parameters, or variables learned and adjusted during training, can be downloaded, run or modified by different developers.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 23, 2026
In the case of the properties in the FS Rialto 2021-FL3 loan pool, more than 90% of the mortgages have already been modified or received some kind of forbearance, according to Morningstar.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 22, 2026
To sing a note in one of these cavernous spaces is to hear its sound echo and reverberate, returning to its source modified by the building itself.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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"Our study, which used more than 9,000 recorded meals, suggests that modifying diet during and after antibiotics, specifically by reducing sweets intake, could help with that."
From Science Daily ● Oct. 7, 2026
Barkley, who lives with his fiancée, Anna Congdon, and their three young children in a Philadelphia suburb, talked about modifying his workouts, taking inspiration from Kobe Bryant and his animal-themed meditation technique.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 21, 2026
The bulk of the canal's construction work involved widening, deepening and modifying existing waterways, while a small section had to be excavated, Xinhua said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 16, 2026
A few times lately, I’ve caught myself modifying my own work to sound “less like A.I.”
From Slate ● Aug. 18, 2026
Spangler is devastated—a great deal of work has gone into modifying the theater’s storage space so that the carriage will fit.
From "Lincoln's Last Days: The Shocking Assassination that Changed America Forever" by Bill O'Reilly
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